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Belgian paratroopers, the Congolese army and mercenaries recapture Stanleyville in the Congo from rebels.

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UN Security Council calls on UN members to make Africa a nuclear weapons-free zone.

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The UN General Assembly presses Britain, France and Israel for withdrawal of their troops from Egypt. The United States joins t

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Dr Jean Benjamin, Deputy Minister of Social Development in the Republic of South Africa since 29 April 2004, is born.

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The first bar of gold is cast in Welkom, five years after the discovery of gold in the OFS.

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Vuminkosi Zulu, S.A. sculptor is born in Kranskop, KwaZulu, Natal. Johannesburg Art Gallery: The Neglected Tradition, p. 134 g

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The great tank battle of Sidi Rezegh in North Africa rages unabated in World War 2. The South Africans, outnumbered by their Ge

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Prime Minister J.C. Smuts appoints Dr H.J. van der Bijl to the post of Director General of War Supplies, making him, next to Sm

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Arthur Chaskalson, former SA president of the Constitutional Court, is born in Johannesburg.

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Egyptian premier Saad Zaghloel (Zaghlol) Pasja resigns after his refusal to apologise to Britain for the assassination of Gener

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Lennox Sidney Brown, SA cricket player in two tests, is born in Randfontein.

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Hansi Pauline Pollak, sociologist, welfare worker and activist, is born in Johannesburg. In 1980 the University of Natal awarde

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Philip Alan Moore, politician, soldier, educator and financier who emigrated to SA in 1913, is born in Peel, Isle of Man, UK.

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Dr William Robertson (74), Scottish clergyman in SA, dies in Cape Town.

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Jacob de Villiers Roos, journalist, attorney, Director of Prisons, Controller and Auditor-General of the Union of South Africa

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Johann Hendrik Lodewyck Schumann, prisoner of war who played an important role on St Helena to encourage musical and cultural a

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The Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR) and the Republic of Lydenburg unite in Rustenburg.

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Election officials confirm Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf as the winner in Liberia’s post-war elections, making her Africa’s first-ever

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Police find 46kg of cocaine worth R21 million in a box in the cargo section of Johannesburg International Airport. A man with a

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Archbishop emeritus Desmond Tutu, delivering the second annual Nelson Mandela Lecture in Johannesburg issues a stern warning th

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More than 500 traditional healers march to the Treatment Action Campaign’s offices in Cape Town and Johannesburg, demanding tha

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South African flanker Schalk Burger (21) picks up two major international awards, the first player ever to receive the internat

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Somali villagers, isolated for weeks by flooding, finally receive aid from boats travelling down the Juba river.

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An Ethiopian Airlines plane is hijacked over the Comoros Islands and crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing 125 people.

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Fifty-four members of the Muslim Brotherhood are incarcerated by an Egyptian Military court during a pre-election purge.

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South African President P. W. Botha grants reprieves to the &quot;Sharpeville Six&quot;, the six Black South Africans who were

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Fifty-eight die as Egyptian commandos storm a hijacked Egyptian jet in Malta.

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Swaziland and Lesotho take steps to clear themselves of suspicion of allowing insurgents of the ANC to use their territory as s

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Forces of the White Rhodesian government attacks nationalist guerrilla bases at Tembue and Chimoio in Mozambique, killing alleg

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A newly formed extreme right-wing organisation, the Afrikaner Resistance Movement, is being investigated by the authorities.

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Belgian paratroopers, the Congolese army and mercenaries recapture Stanleyville in the Congo from rebels.

UN Security Council calls on UN members to make Africa a nuclear weapons-free zone.

The UN General Assembly presses Britain, France and Israel for withdrawal of their troops from Egypt. The United States joins t

Dr Jean Benjamin, Deputy Minister of Social Development in the Republic of South Africa since 29 April 2004, is born.

The first bar of gold is cast in Welkom, five years after the discovery of gold in the OFS.

Vuminkosi Zulu, S.A. sculptor is born in Kranskop, KwaZulu, Natal. Johannesburg Art Gallery: The Neglected Tradition, p. 134 g

The great tank battle of Sidi Rezegh in North Africa rages unabated in World War 2. The South Africans, outnumbered by their Ge

Prime Minister J.C. Smuts appoints Dr H.J. van der Bijl to the post of Director General of War Supplies, making him, next to Sm

Arthur Chaskalson, former SA president of the Constitutional Court, is born in Johannesburg.

Egyptian premier Saad Zaghloel (Zaghlol) Pasja resigns after his refusal to apologise to Britain for the assassination of Gener

Lennox Sidney Brown, SA cricket player in two tests, is born in Randfontein.

Hansi Pauline Pollak, sociologist, welfare worker and activist, is born in Johannesburg. In 1980 the University of Natal awarde

Philip Alan Moore, politician, soldier, educator and financier who emigrated to SA in 1913, is born in Peel, Isle of Man, UK.

Dr William Robertson (74), Scottish clergyman in SA, dies in Cape Town.

Jacob de Villiers Roos, journalist, attorney, Director of Prisons, Controller and Auditor-General of the Union of South Africa

Johann Hendrik Lodewyck Schumann, prisoner of war who played an important role on St Helena to encourage musical and cultural a

The Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR) and the Republic of Lydenburg unite in Rustenburg.

Election officials confirm Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf as the winner in Liberia’s post-war elections, making her Africa’s first-ever

Police find 46kg of cocaine worth R21 million in a box in the cargo section of Johannesburg International Airport. A man with a

Archbishop emeritus Desmond Tutu, delivering the second annual Nelson Mandela Lecture in Johannesburg issues a stern warning th

More than 500 traditional healers march to the Treatment Action Campaign’s offices in Cape Town and Johannesburg, demanding tha

South African flanker Schalk Burger (21) picks up two major international awards, the first player ever to receive the internat

Somali villagers, isolated for weeks by flooding, finally receive aid from boats travelling down the Juba river.

An Ethiopian Airlines plane is hijacked over the Comoros Islands and crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing 125 people.

Fifty-four members of the Muslim Brotherhood are incarcerated by an Egyptian Military court during a pre-election purge.

South African President P. W. Botha grants reprieves to the &amp;quot;Sharpeville Six&amp;quot;, the six Black South Africans who were

Fifty-eight die as Egyptian commandos storm a hijacked Egyptian jet in Malta.

Swaziland and Lesotho take steps to clear themselves of suspicion of allowing insurgents of the ANC to use their territory as s

Forces of the White Rhodesian government attacks nationalist guerrilla bases at Tembue and Chimoio in Mozambique, killing alleg

A newly formed extreme right-wing organisation, the Afrikaner Resistance Movement, is being investigated by the authorities.

South African President P. W. Botha grants reprieves to the "Sharpeville Six", the six Black South Africans who were